Daily Archives: July 30th, 2009

Trojans Replace Windows System Files

By Andrew Brandt

When the threat research analysts here at Webroot recently started seeing malware swapping out legitimate components of Windows and replacing them with malware payloads, I couldn’t help but wonder what these malware authors were thinking.
After all,  cybercriminals with a lick of sense know very well that messing with system files is dangerous juju. Such an [...]